David Chang listening to white people complain about MSG in chinese food making them sick and then giving them a ton of Doritos and Pringles and Ruffles that all have MSG and having them eat it, experience nothing, then watching them try to explain the difference is high performance art.
xenophobia. the reason is xenophobia. with a healthy dose of racism.
So it’s not MSG. Good.
White people are racist. No doubt.
But maybe there’s something else in Chinese restaurant food that gives some people a headache.
I get a headache from Irish soda bread and certain brands of violet-flavored candy. I love violet-flavored candy. I do probably have some xenophobia towards Irish Americans. Either way, the headaches are real.
that’s called psychosomatic symptoms which basically means you let your racism/xenophobia make you actually sick, congrats, you deserve it
How do you just come out and say you’re xenophobic like that omggg
I’ve literally never heard of MSG until I started actively listening to White People speak about “ethnic” food and it’s hilarious because I’ve been eating Chinese food my entire life…. no headaches.
…. what’s…. what’s msg?
MSG is a flavor enhancement powder (like salt but not salt idk never seen it outside youtube recipe vids) used in some asian countries, some people think it is bad for your health, but mostly is their racism speaking
Didn’t the complaints thing come from some scientist in the 70s writing a paper purely for racist reasons or something?
A bit earlier than that, but yes:
But MSG’s conquest of the planet hit a major bump in April 1968,
when, in the New England Journal of Medicine, a Dr Ho Man Kwok wrote a
chatty article, not specifically about MSG, whose knock-on effects were
to panic the food industry. ‘I have experienced a strange syndrome
whenever I have eaten out in a Chinese restaurant, especially one that
served northern Chinese food. The syndrome, which usually begins 15 to
20 minutes after I have eaten the first dish, lasts for about two hours,
without hangover effect. The most prominent symptoms are numbness at
the back of the neck, gradually radiating to both arms and the back,
general weakness and palpitations…’
And so was born Chinese restaurant syndrome (CRS) and a
medico-academic industry dedicated to the researching and publicising of
the dangers of MSG – the foreign migrant contaminating American
kitchens. Shortly after Dr Ho came Dr John Olney at Washington
University, who in 1969 injected and force-fed newborn mice with huge
doses of up to four grams/kg bodyweight of MSG. He reported that they
suffered brain lesions and claimed that the MSG found in just one bowl
of tinned soup would do the same to the brain of a two-year-old.
Other scientists were testing MSG and finding no evidence of harm –
in one 1970 study 11 humans ate up to 147 grams of the stuff every day
for six weeks without any adverse reactions. At the University of
Western Sydney the researchers concluded, tersely: ‘Chinese restaurant
syndrome is an anecdote applied to a variety of postprandial illnesses;
rigorous and realistic scientific evidence linking the syndrome to MSG
could not be found.’
Science has still not found a convincing explanation for CRS: indeed,
some researchers suggest it may well be to do with the other things
diners have imbibed there – peanuts, shellfish, large amounts of lager.
Others say that fear of MSG is a form of mass psychosis – you suffer the
symptoms you’ve been told to worry about.
The fact is that, since the eighties, mainstream science has got
bored of MSG. Some research continues; in 2002, for example, New
Scientist got very excited over a report that MSG might damage your
eyesight, after Japanese scientists announced that they had produced
retinal thinning in baby rats fed with MSG. It turned out they were
putting 20 grams of MSG in every 100g of rat food – an amazing amount,
given that, in the UK, we adults consume about four grams of it each a
week. (One project took people who were convinced their asthma was
caused by MSG and fed them up to six grams of it a day, without
ill-effects). However, at no time has any official body, governmental or
academic, ever found it necessary to warn humans against consuming MSG.
Mary Jane Rathbun, Inventor of the Marijuana Brownie.
In the 1980s, Mary Jane was baking over 4,000 brownies a week for Californian AIDS patients after she realised it eased their suffering and depression. Despite multiple convictions, she remained an active marijuana advocate until the day she died.
I had to fact check this and her Wikipedia page made me like her even more:
“She was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she attended Catholic school. At the age of 13, she was involved in an altercation with a nun who tried to cane her, but Rathbun fought back.”
“Social activism appealed to her from a young age; she traveled from Chicago to Wisconsin to campaign for the right of miners to form unions. In the late 1940s, she worked as an activist promoting abortion rights for women in Minneapolis.”
“Rathbun often appeared in public wearing polyester pantsuits, and she was said to have a ‘sailor’s mouth.’”
some heroes wear polyester pantsuits
IS SHE WHY ITS CALLED MARY JANE???
wine mom? vodka aunt? no, no, this is weed grandma
EVERYONE SHOULD TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY, members of the KKK may seem dumb and obnoxious but who the hell knows what they got planned. All KKK members need to be locked up forever. This isn’t about “freedom of speech” anymore, this is protecting minorities at the fullest extent.
this is why i don’t get how people say “both sides have problems” sorry hun, but last time I checked threatening to kill over 11 MILLION people was so much worse then asking to be treated like a human being.
Last week, a named white supremacist did an interview with a major news outlet and said killing Jews was one of the right’s top values. Now another alt-righter is threatening to do the same to Latinx immigrants.
THESE ARE NOT EMPTY THREATS. BELIEVE THESE MONSTERS WHEN THEY GO ON LIVE TV AND SAY THEY WANT TO MURDER MINORITIES.
THESE ARE NOT JUST WORDS, THESE ARE ACTS VIOLENCE
Yall say this “never again” shit abt the holocaust but the reason it happened was because people ignored hitler’s hate speech and blew it off as being all talk. FUCKING DO SOMETHING.
more vampires who don’t remember more vampires saying ‘i don’t fucking know man, google it’ more vampires not remembering important historical figures more vampires not recalling centuries worth of history more vampires saying ‘ that was at least 300 years ago, how the FUCK could i remember that detail?’ more vampires whose brains work like human brains
More vampires who 300 years later can’t remember what was the truth and what was the lie they told to get out of trouble.
More vampires who are like, “I don’t know, man, I spent most of that decade in an opium den.”
More vampires who weren’t paying attention because they didn’t think it would be important.
More vampires who don’t know because there was lot of conflicting gossip and they don’t want to point any fingers.
More vampires who are just bad at dates. “Back in 1620, or was it 1645, wait, what year is it now?”
More vampires who were on a totally different continent when it happened, so get off their back and stop asking them questions already.
YES to all of this but also consider: vampires who only remember the most trivial stuff.
“Oh yeah, the only thing I remember about the American Revolution was this nice candlemaker I met sometime, and she was wearing this really cute red shawl…”
“Uhhh I don’t remember much about the fall of Rome but there was this one fucking cobblestone right outside the coliseum…”
Also consider: vampires who realize three or four hundred years after the fact that they knew someone famous.
Just sits up in bed one night screaming “THAT WAS GEORGE GODDAMN WASHINGTON”
*vampire wakes up his girlfriend in the middle of the night*
“Stacy. Hey, hey Stacy.”
“Wh- Eric, what now?”
“I just realized that I missed the entire Islamic golden age.”
“Wh- what?”
“I missed it, Stacy. The whole thing. I was lost in a forest the whole time. I was so lost.”
“Eric, I’m trying to sleep.”
“Stacy they… listen here, Stacy. I missed the invention of the number zero. Stacy, Stacy I’m freaking out.”
thank god for the mythbusters though because it used to be that whenever i knew i had insomnia i’d just kind of accept it and stay up doing whatever until my morning classes and spend the day feeling like shit
but then they did an episode where they established that even just fucking laying there for a half hour, not even sleeping just laying there and not even for an hour, makes a significant difference and you’ll feel way better
it has made a huge difference in my life to know that it’s okay if i can’t fall asleep, it takes a lot of the pressure off and ironically helps me fall asleep better
…i did not know this, thank you
If anyone wants to look it up, the episode was specifically the Deadliest Catch crossover ep, and the myth was that it’s better/safer when working a 30 hour shift to take a 20 minute nap every six hours rather than try to power through. They did an obstacle course test, one without naps and one with, and even though they couldn’t even sleep half the time the naps resulted in their scores doubling.
So actually I undersold it, even if it’s 7:40 and your alarm goes off at 8 just lie down and shut your eyes and it will still be better than nothing
This is what my mom always tells me: “You’ll rest even when you’re just lying down”. Good to know for everyone who has problems sleeping.
